FIG. 2.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of Candidatus ‘Rickettsia senegalensis’ strain PU01-02 relative to rickettsia type strains and uncultured rickettsiae. The gltA sequences were aligned by the use of CLUSTALW, and phylogenetic inferences were obtained from a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis with the HKY+Г substitution model. The GenBank accession numbers are indicated at the end. The numbers at the nodes are the bootstrap values obtained by repeating the analysis 100 times to generate a majority consensus tree. There were a total of 727 positions in the final dataset. The scale bar indicates a 10% nucleotide sequence divergence.